Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] their [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lecturers voiced their overwhelming support for Mrs Falconer and her sister at a meeting at RGU yesterday . |
| 2 | It is like turning to the end of the story before you begin reading it , to find out if the bad dies got their just deserts , or the good guys won . |
| 3 | If , in addition , they could hire for private patients the very expensive facilities in the way of X-ray machines , operating theatres and the like , to be found within the National Health Service , this too made their lives very much easier and in many cases made their private practice a possibility . |
| 4 | Long before button badges made their punk-inspired debut , Gedge and Co had realised the earning potential of such merchandise . |
| 5 | Clearly , a large and growing majority of occupiers owned their own home . |
| 6 | India 's openers produced their first half-century stand of the series , but they lost three wickets before reaching three figures , and another at 102 , when Vengsarkar , stretching down the pitch , was unamused to be given out lbw to Hughes 's slower ‘ googly ’ . |
| 7 | Schmidt , Hunter and their associates applied their new techniques to data from many samples drawn from a large number of different occupations . |
| 8 | They feared that , without proper cover , the City would lose out as an international financial centre as large overseas institutions moved their European offices to less-exposed capitals . |
| 9 | His talents , his wealth , and the changing times raised him to the court of assistants of the Levant Company from 1644 to 1648 , and in 1645 Parliament appointed him to the Goldsmiths ' Hall committee , through which Royalists redeemed their sequestrated estates by paying compositions . |
| 10 | Almost immediately referee , Paul Taylor blew his whistle , the poor Portsmouth fans made their sad way home to the south coast , the players with heads drooped , left the field and many of the United fans were already leaving the ground in the crowd of five hundred five thousand , two hundred and twenty six when Andy Melville scored that vital goal which gave United three very important League points . |
| 11 | In Melody Maker The Stud Brothers made their usual attack on Gedge . |
| 12 | ON THIS DAY : In 1903 , the Wright Brothers made their first flight in the Kitty Hawk . |
| 13 | The second battalion of the Scots Guards made their final appearance at Edinburgh 's Dreghorn barracks . |
| 14 | Most fetuses sucked their right thumb , with only 5.4% preferring their left . |
| 15 | Motor traders reported their strongest increase in sales volumes for two years . |
| 16 | Substantial increases on the previous year were made by 446 Branches , 138 Branches sustained their last year 's contribution , which in many cases had already been a record , and only 43 were significantly down . |
| 17 | The party newspaper , L'Humanite , said the firm was giving in to property sharks who want to develop 200 acres around the site where the Renault brothers built their first cars in the family garage more than 90 years ago . |
| 18 | Not surprisingly , many gentry and clergy modified their public pronouncements accordingly , surviving both Parliamentary rule and the Restoration . |
| 19 | Many Titfords from a number of family branches found their last resting place at Abney Park . |
| 20 | Citizens ' Action , an American environmental group , has issued a report showing that US manufacturers reduced their harmful emissions by 18 per cent in 1989 . |
| 21 | In fact Dewey had left unassigned the section 539 , in the physics schedules , allowing , very fortunately , for future developments , and it was only later that the new subjects received their allotted positions in subsequent editions of the scheme . |
| 22 | Under Imperial rule , a number of emperors added their own forum bearing their name ; one forum was not large enough for the needs of the whole city . |
| 23 | Some anti-BFASS radicals , especially the Dublin circle of Webb and Haughton , supported the majority position but some of their usual British allies in support of the Garrisonians assumed their normal stance hostile to the Broad Street committee of the BFASS . |
| 24 | Alarmed by this influx , many ‘ respectable ’ fans vacated their regular places on the end terraces and congregated in the stands . |
| 25 | Until the end of the nineteenth century , or even later , most foreign offices adapted their internal structures , for so many generations designed to meet demands which were entirely European , only slowly and reluctantly to cope with new problems which increasingly embraced the entire world . |
| 26 | The Scots finished their 50 overs on 145 for five , with Donald Orr not out 32 , off 54 balls , and Jim Govan unbeaten on 31 , off 43 balls , figures which compare more than favourably with Alastair Storie , whose 25 took him 82 balls . |
| 27 | On 1 September 1989 eighteen schools began their independent existence . |
| 28 | The ex-MetropolitaN Feltham cars followed their ex-L.U.T. brethren to Telford Avenue and some were allocated to Brixton Hill depôt which was now regarded as an annexe to Telford Avenue and had no traverser . |
| 29 | The Annamese mandarin looked at Joseph 's eager face for a moment , then his eyes lost their watchful look for the first time and he smiled . |
| 30 | On the day of the launch of The Campaign For Unbleached Paper , the Association of Sanitary Protection Manufacturers sent their own press release in response to the World in Action expose by courier bike — to all the women 's magazines and papers . |